Every person’s recovery journey is unique, and beyond some basic principles (hope, choices, empowerment, self-determination, respect, and so on), what helps each person recover is unique.
However, I think there is value in people sharing what helps them recover. Sometimes I learn a new technique for staying well that I’d never thought of before when a [...]
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Being a peer specialist is hard work. Before becoming a peer specialist, I was employed in another entry-level mental health position, in a day treatment program.
Although work in the day treatment program was challenging, I have found that my work as a peer specialist is even more so. Perhaps because the peer support program is [...]
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Many psychiatric consumer/survivors have experienced trauma at some point in their lives. Whether it was an abusive family, inhumane psychiatric inpatient treatment, witnessing a suicide, being raped, or some other horrific event, many of us are intimately acquainted with the long-term effects of trauma.I have had bipolar disorder for years. First diagnosed in 1999 at [...]
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I hope this blog will become a useful tool for anyone with a mental illness working on recovery, and especially for peer specialists as they work with their peers.
If you have questions or know of any resources to help peer specialists do their job, please drop me a comment!
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